And if anybody thinks a casino would get profit from the regular State College population, not the students, that’s laughable. State College has barely 40k people (https://datausa.io/profile/geo/state-college-pa/), and State College is a family-oriented community. Penn State supplies almost 90k students, of which I am one, through its main University Park campus (https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/pennsylvania-state-university-main-campus/student-life/diversity/). Any casino development in State College would necessarily be directed towards the larger population: the students that are here for three quarters of the year. But as was mentioned earlier, the students are already hooked on the online gaming scene.
]]>It costs millions of dollars to be able to open a casino. So, why would anybody be willing to do this unless they knew they would make much more money than this initial cost?!
And where will the money come from? From Pennsylvania residents who lose money to gambling.
Doesn’t this sound like an obvious recipe for failure? So, why even go there?
We don’t need to allow a rich owner to get richer while the large majority of people who would visit a casino will get poorer. And some will have very serious problems.
So, let’s just prevent the loss of money and the serious problems by making sure that no more new casinos open up in Pennsylvania.
This sounds like a simple, no-brainer solution.
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